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Just what you’re looking for

“Never again!”

My friend Ricki recently took her 3-year-old daughter to her pediatrician for an annual check up. Of course, her doctor strongly recommended a flu shot. He said it would help prevent the flu and make the symptoms less severe if her daughter did get the flu.

As he put it: She’ll have a lower fever, less vomiting, that sort of thing.

That night, her daughter developed a fever and vomited several times.

Maybe the timing was coincidental, but just try to tell that to Ricki. She’s convinced the shot caused the very problems it was supposed to prevent. So now she’s looking for other ways to protect her daughter and her family from the flu.

Ricki, I’ve got just what you’re looking for…

Put to the test

Time once again to call in the Wonder Vitamin of the 21st Century. Of course, I’m talking about vitamin D.

Researchers at a Tokyo medical school did a great job of testing D as a flu preventive.

First, they followed the “gold standard” of clinical research–a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Second, they recruited more than 330 young schoolchildren. And as you probably know, school-age children are notorious for spreading flu germs like fire through a hay loft.

Third, they used a generous dose (1,200 IU daily) of vitamin D3, which is the best form of supplemental D.

Fourth, they followed the kids for four months–right through the heart of flu season–December to March.

In short: an excellent test by anyone’s standards.

(And the results were excellent too.)

In the D3 group, 11 percent of the kids developed the flu, compared to 19 percent in the placebo group.

Not necessarily a HUGE victory. But other results dramatically exceeded expectations. Incidence of the flu was nearly 75 percent lower among kids in the D3 group who had the lowest D levels at the outset of the study. And kids with asthma in the D3 group had significantly fewer asthma attacks compared with asthmatic kids in the placebo group.

This is just one study, of course, but given the many benefits of vitamin D, you really can’t go wrong putting a D3 supplement at the top of your flu defense list.

And I’m going to tell Ricki the same thing.

Sources:
“Randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation to prevent seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 91, No. 5, May 2010, ajcn.org